The Latin Grammy nominations, announced Wednesday morning, feature one name as the top contender for golden gramophones this year: Bad Bunny .
The Puerto Rican superstar born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is up for 12 awards, including album of the year, record of the year and song of the year (he's competing against himself with multiple nominations in record and song of the year). Through his rise in recent years as one of the most iconoclastic, untranslatable figures in pop — his reign colors far outside the lines of Latin music — with some of the biggest songs and albums released in the last decade, Bad Bunny has never won a Latin Grammy in one of the three major categories.
As he has been every year since 2017, he is nominated in the urban categories, including best reggaeton p